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Non-coding RNA World 2024: Exploring Mechanisms, Designing Medicines
October, 7-9; 2024. Basel.
Reduced fees for LS2 members!

The upcoming event Non-coding RNA World 2024: Exploring Mechanisms, Designing Medicines will bring together the international ncRNA community to share and explore the latest advances in our field. The conference will cover a broad range of topics, and each session will be anchored by leading international speakers.

The organizers also committed to showcasing the work of early-stage researchers, and the majority of the oral presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts. The program will provide plenty of opportunities to casually network and mingle via poster sessions and refreshment breaks.

LS² has a collaboration agreement with the organizers and our members will benefit of reduced fees, 20% discount. If you are LS² member and would like to attend the conference, contact the LS² office at info@ls2.ch to get your code and certificate of your membership (required during registration).

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Can Google Scholar Survive the AI Revolution?

The largest scholarly search engine is celebrating its 20th birthday, but AI-driven competitors offer advantages.

Open Research Data Poses Real World Risks That Need to Be Managed

Drawing on their recent work to identify forms of research data misuse Irene V. Pasquetto, Zoë Cullen, Andrea Thomer and Morgan Wofford outline seven kinds of research data misuse and provide recommendations.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Politics makes science an instrument of injustice

The way that governments think corrupts scientists and their work. Ian Boyd offers an alternative.

researchprofessionalnews.com

South Korea Can Boost the Research Potential of Low-income Countries

The nation's unique geographical and geopolitical position makes it an ideal candidate to help low-income countries to realize their potential.

State Capacity and Varieties of Climate Policy

Multiple policy mechanisms exist to create climate policy. In this comment, the authors discuss the institution capacity and fiscal space that shape national policies around sticks and carrots mechanisms.

Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking

Americans' trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

pewresearch.org

Assessing Potential Future Artificial Intelligence Risks, Benefits and Policy Imperatives

The swift evolution of AI technologies calls for policymakers to consider and proactively manage AI-driven change. This OECD's report distils research and expert insights on prospective AI benefits, risks and policy imperatives.

Risky Science and Public Consent

Should citizens decide on risky science? To explore this question of public consent and risky science, two experts with differing opinions share their points of view, in an effort to find some common ground.

Science Policy Outlook for the Second Trump Presidency

Hostility to China, equity initiatives, and the federal bureaucracy will be key forces in the new administration.

ELife Won't Get an Impact Factor, Says Clarivate

Clarivate has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science.

retractionwatch.com

Falling Walls: How Europe Can Strengthen Transfer and Innovation

How can Europe translate research into innovation?

sciencebusiness.net

Major Biomedical Funder NIH Poised for Massive Reform Under Trump 2.0

Sweeping changes and more research scrutiny could be on the way for the US National Institutes of Health.

Science Europe Plans ‘Systemic Change’ in Research Sustainability

Association of research funding and performing organisations seeks to lead by example

researchprofessionalnews.com

AI and Research Software: Helping Hand or Faustian Pact?

Some researchers’ use of chatbot-written code might be running ahead of their understanding

researchprofessionalnews.com

Preprints at a Crossroads - Are We Compromising Openness for Credibility?

Bringing together a range of studies into various aspects of how preprints interact with the wider information ecosystem, Natascha Chtena, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Alice Fleerackers argue that the speed, accessibility and low barriers to entry that preprints offer to scholarly communication risk being undermined by …

blogs.lse.ac.uk

US Trust in Scientists Plunged During the Pandemic - But It's Starting to Recover

Confidence that scientists will make decisions in the public interest nosedived at the onset of the pandemic but has now started to rise.

Can AI Review the Scientific Literature - and Figure Out What It All Means?

Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.

Competitiveness is Key to Europe's Health Security

To strengthen its health R&D pipelines and prepare for the next health crisis, Europe needs to balance security concerns with greater industrial competitiveness

sciencebusiness.net

AI-generated Images Threaten Science - Here's How Researchers Hope to Spot Them

Generative-AI technologies can create convincing scientific data with ease - publishers and integrity specialists fear a torrent of faked science.

Metascience Can Transform Indian Research

Drawing on a study of priorities in health research, researchers argue a metascience approach can refocus Indian research towards areas that are most needed by Indian society and that are understudied globally

blogs.lse.ac.uk

'It Could Be a Catastrophe': Déjà Vu and Panic for Scientists As Trump Wins Second Term

The research community fears another Trump presidency will be worse than the first, but the chemical and biotech sectors are more optimistic

chemistryworld.com

The Nobel Prizes Tell a Story About Scientific Discovery

The 2024 awards offer a unique look into the present and future of scientific innovation, including the rise of AI.

Assessing the Trump Factor in US Science: Fear and Uncertainty

US academics debate Trump’s impact on R&D: budget cuts, visa limits – but perhaps some transatlantic cooperation.

sciencebusiness.net

The Horizon Europe Leaks: EU Plans €438M for Democracy, Economics and Culture Research in 2025

"Radicalisation and extremism" and the rise of autocracies are a focus of next year’s draft work programme.

sciencebusiness.net

Grass-roots Grant-writing Approaches Can Help Researchers at Small Institutions to Succeed

At small or minority-serving institutions, time and resources that are needed to draft successful grant proposals are often in short supply. But help is available.